Slow Cooker chicken curry

I am trying to use my slow cooker more on busy days, and when I saw the Morphy Richards £4 slow cooker challenge, I knew just the recipe to try.

We love curry in our house, and I have been playing around with curry in the slow cooker for a while. This version usually fills us all up and comes out tasting lovely.

- 4 chicken thigh fillets (£2)

- 1kg potatoes chopped really small ( 50p) based on 2.5kg at 99p in the basics range

- 1 tin chopped tomatoes (33p)

- 5 mushrooms (20p) based on 4p each

- 1tsp curry powder / 1tsp cumin / 1tsp coriander (from store cupboard)

- rice to serve (30p)  based on basics range at 60p for 1kg white rice

total cost = £3.33

One tip I can give you is to chop the potatoes up really small as they take a long time to cook. I usually find this curry is perfect on high for about 5 hours or low for 8 hours. You just have to cook the rice before you're ready to serve.

Before

After

Overall taste is lovely. I would probably add some green beans or other vegetable to taste for overall appearance.

Minced Beef Pasta Bake

Mince was in the fridge and needed using up, and the broccoli was fresh from my fruit and veg box this morning. I didn't fancy making anything special with much effort, so pasta bake cobbled together seemed like a great idea.

500g minced beef = £1.70 (50p off in local Morrisons)

1 onion = 13p

1 tin chopped tomatoes = 33p

1/2 bag pasta spirals = 15p (used basics range)

100g grated cheese = 50p (cheddar on offer for 500g block)

large head of broccoli = 98p

I basically browned the mince and onion together, stirred in the chopped tomatoes before mixing in a large oven proof dish with the dried uncooked pasta, sprinkled the cheese over the top and left in the oven for 30 minutes. The broccoli was done to perfection in approx 10 mins.

This provided us with three very large portions, but would easily go to four or five people. You could add plenty more veg to the mince such as mushrooms, sweetcorn, carrots etc should you want to.

A very filling meal for 95p per portion based on four people eating.